What is frontier knife?

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Best Answer: A "frontier" knife has a wide-ranging definition depending on the source. In the mid-19th century, when the popularity of the knife was at its peak, the term was applied to a wide range of blades. Absent a consensus definition, it is impossible to clearly define the origin of the knife. To complicate matters, some American blades that meet the modern definition of the Bowie knife may pre-date Bowie. See Wikipedia.

I read Frontiersmanship, James Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Kit Carson from wiki so this helped me a lot. Davy Crocketts original knife at museum is totally different than i expected. So far as i can see there is no exact identification for frontier knives but its mostly likes bowies. Thank you all.

I would call a frontier knife any knife you wanted to call a frontier knife. Frontiersmen used a large variety of knives for different purposes.

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No such thing except any knife used in the Frontier days was a frontier knife.
And Bowie knifes were made in Sheffield England where at the time all the best steel knifes were and are still made by cutlers .
Bowie only designed the knife he did not make it!
Funny thing was that design was made in the UK at least a hundred years before Jim Bowie was born so may be he ripped it off

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I might be wrong on this.
But it is also called a Bowie Knife. A true Bowie knife would have been made by Bowie. To keep a knife from being passed off as an original Bowie most knife makers call it a Frontier knife. Also called a "hunters knife".
A blade such as this was considered mandatory on the US frontier. It was a good self defense weapon and useful for skinning animals.